Asynchronous Method Invocation
All of the invocation techniques shown so far simply route the stream of execution from one method to another. It is often desirable to fork the stream of execution into two branches, allowing one branch to execute the instructions of a given method while the remaining branch independently continues its normal processing. Figure 6.11 illustrates this concept. On a multiprocessor machine, the two branches can actually execute concurrently. On a single-processor machine, the CLR will preemptively schedule two branches of execution for execution on the shared CPU.
Figure 6.11. Synchronous versus Asynchronous Processing
The primary motivation for forking execution is to allow processing to continue while part of the ...
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